True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
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Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Suzanne HeywoodCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 Grippingly vivid and p...
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How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Safiya SinclairCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunn...
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man''s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine HardenCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50This is the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape to freedom. A gripping, terrifying biog...
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocausts Most Audacious Rescue Operation
Roger MoorhouseCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
Thomas GeveCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people s...
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Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of Bangkok''s Nightmare Jails
Sebastian WilliamsCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison ...
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Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea
Jonathan FranklinCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic...
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Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
Raynor WinnCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCEJoin Raynor and Moth on their remarkable 1000-mile walk from...
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I Want My Daddy
Casey WatsonCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. ...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating r...
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PAPILLON
CHARRIERE HENRI€15.99An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure...
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Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Cathy GlassCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care s...
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A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever
Cathy GlassCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has ...
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Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Maggie HartleyCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planni...
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That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever
Ellen de VisserCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN ...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas
Scott EllsworthCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...
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Battered, Broken, Healed: The true story of a mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together
Maggie HartleyCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her...
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the Worlds Deadliest Migration Route
Sally HaydenCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE The most import...
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The Witness
Nicola TallantCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we're living in is stunning' Eamon Dunphy'Gritty, t...
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Too Scared to Tell: Afraid and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
Cathy GlassCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother is abroad and he has ...
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Love as Always, Mum xxx: The true and terrible story of surviving a childhood with Fred and Rose West
Mae WestCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'A CHILLING new memoir by the daughter of mass murderer Fred West and his wife Rose describes the savage cruelty of her upbringing in 25 Cromwell...
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A Rebel in Auschwitz
Jack FairweatherCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A young reader's edition of The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year 2020. An extraordinary, eye-opening acc...
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My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
Selma van de PerreCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to t...
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Philomena: The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition)
Martin SixsmithCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Inspiring the film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, and directed by Stephen Frears, Philomena is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives we...
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For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman''s Quest for her Stolen Child
Jean SassonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.She had wi...
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Tiny Prisoners: Two siblings trapped in a world of abuse. One woman determined to free them
Maggie HartleyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three ye...
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Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story
Elaine DePrinceCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should...
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SAS Great Escapes Three: Gripping True Escape Stories Executed by World War Two Heroes
Damien LewisCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Na...
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My Girl: Life As My Father''s Prisoner
Ann CusackCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99A woman who was sexually abused by her own father and later gave birth to his daughter is now running a support group which spans 30 countries and ...
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Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
Keren BlankfeldCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the huma...
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The Promise: How an everyday hero made the impossible possible
Arnold DixCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99How a 'nerdy' Australian flower farmer, barrister, scientist and engineer saved 41 people trapped in an Indian mine collapse that inspired the worl...
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Trauma and Ecstasy: How Psychedelics Made My Life Worth Living
Alex AbrahamCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99Current price €16.14Original price €18.99Save 15% -
Trauma and Ecstasy: How Psychedelics Made My Life Worth Living
Alex AbrahamCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Current price €22.53Original price €26.50Save 15% -
Chasing Normal: Finding Love After Surviving Physical and Emotional Abuse
Lisa GerardyCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Current price €19.54Original price €22.99Save 15% -
Chasing Normal: Finding Love After Surviving Physical and Emotional Abuse
Lisa GerardyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Hannah DurkinCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARYS BEST BOOKS ...
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Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret
Cathy GlassCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details...
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Inside the Menendez Murders: The Untold Family Tragedy
William VidaCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15% -
Purposeful Pain: Looking Beyond the Pain and Finding My Purpose
Tracey Conley BrayCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Current price €15.29Original price €17.99Save 15% -
Essie Dunbar: Buried Alive: The true story of a woman who defied death at her own funeral
Irma B SchreiberCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15% -
Surviving What Could Have Been: When the world falls apart, faith is the only thing that can hold us together.
Gary Paul GatesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Felipe Massa: The Brazilian Hero Who Left a Mark on Formula One
Daisy SparkleCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Current price €15.29Original price €17.99Save 15% -
Sebastian Vettel: A Career Fueled by Passion, Precision, and Championship Glory
Daisy SparkleCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Current price €15.29Original price €17.99Save 15% -
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
Therese Taylor-StinsonCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Current price €18.69Original price €21.99Save 15% -
A Pearl in My Oyster: A Family''s Journey through Addiction
C B EnnisCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Current price €15.29Original price €17.99Save 15% -
For One More Wish: A Journey Through Grief
Becky Cortesi-CarusoCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15%